--- product_id: 1242929 title: "Halo 2 - PC" brand: "microsoft" price: "NT$3243" currency: TWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 8 category: "Microsoft" url: https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1242929-halo-2-pc store_origin: TW region: Taiwan --- # Single-player FPS classic Windows Vista optimized Custom Map Editor included Halo 2 - PC **Brand:** microsoft **Price:** NT$3243 **Availability:** βœ… In Stock ## Summary > πŸ”₯ Relive the legendary Halo 2 β€” where nostalgia meets next-level PC gaming! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Halo 2 - PC by microsoft - **How much does it cost?** NT$3243 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tw](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1242929-halo-2-pc) ## Best For - microsoft enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted microsoft brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Dedicated Server Freedom:** Host your own multiplayer servers for uninterrupted, competitive online action. - β€’ **Legacy of a Gaming Phenomenon:** Join millions worldwide in the iconic Halo universe, boasting 18 Game-of-the-Year awards and unmatched community engagement. - β€’ **Immersive Single-Player Campaign:** Master Chief’s saga continues with intense battles and a gripping storyline that defines the genre. - β€’ **Epic Windows Vista FPS Experience:** Dive into the award-winning Halo 2, fully optimized for Vista’s advanced graphics and lighting. - β€’ **Unleash Creativity with Map Editor:** Design and share your own multiplayer maps, expanding gameplay beyond the original content. ## Overview Halo 2 for PC is a Windows Vista-exclusive first-person shooter that brings the iconic Xbox experience to desktop gamers. Featuring an epic single-player campaign, enhanced visuals, a powerful Map Editor for custom multiplayer content, and dedicated server support, it continues the saga of Master Chief against the Covenant. Despite some compatibility and multiplayer population challenges, it remains a cult classic with a massive legacy in gaming history. ## Description Product description HALO 2.0 PC 32-BIT/VISTA DVD desertcart.com The entertainment phenomenon that conquered the digital universe is once again out to save the planet as the award-winning, best-selling Halo 2 is coming to the Windows Vista platform. Optimized for the advanced gaming features in Windows Vista, Halo 2 promises to revolutionize the first-person shooter experience for Windows gamers, as it did for consoles. With its classic story, enhanced visual presentation, multiplayer excitement and all-new Map Editor, Halo 2 for Windows Vista offers more game customization and new content than ever before. Windows Vista gamers will be able to experience the epic story of Halo 2 as Master Chief delves further into the mystery of the Covenant in the aftermath of HaloΒ’s destruction. What he discovers will soon threaten the fate not only of Earth, but of the Universe itself. Features: Epic Narrative: The saga continues with Halo 2, the international award-winning sequel to the highly successful and critically acclaimed Halo: Combat Evolved. In this sequel, the battle comes to Earth, and Master Chief, a genetically enhanced super soldier, is the only thing standing between the relentless alien Covenant and the destruction of all humankind.Exciting Single-Player Gameplay: Experience first hand the epic struggle between Master Chief and the Covenant armada. Brandish dual-wield weapons Covenant arms and pilot human and non-human vehicles and aircraft to battle intelligent AI alien enemies. Unmatched Online Gaming: Halo 2 for Windows Vista will tap into the power of Live Anywhere, a service similar to Xbox Live, to deliver online matchmaking for PC gamers. The service will enable Windows Vista gamers all over the globe to connect via their PCs and play on an innovative and competitive online forum.New Multiplayer Map Editor: The game will also feature the all-new new Map Editor, guaranteeing additional new, fan-generated content in the future. The Halo 2 community can now tap their endless creative potential to develop an unlimited number of user-created multiplayer levels.Complete Community Freedom: Halo 2 for Windows Vista offers gamers the freedom to host their own dedicated servers for maximum multiplayer action.Superior Presentation and Cinematic Excellence: Bring the vast, imaginative world of Halo 2 to life on the Windows Vista platform through higher-resolution textures and improved lighting effects. Experience the unmatched cinematic quality of Halo 2 through the power of Windows Vista.Unprecedented Pedigree: The Halo franchise is one of the best selling and monumental entertainment experiences in history with more than 14.5 million units sold worldwide, more than 18 Game-of-the-Year awards, 750 million hours and 500 million matches logged over Xbox Live. Halo 2 was also one of the most successful entertainment launches of all time Β– including books, films, graphic novels, games and music. Halo 2 for Windows Vista brings this incredible experience to Windows Vista gamers everywhere. Review: Halo franchise is great, and this game rocks! - Halo 2 for the PC is an awesome game (though I haven't tried the Xbox version, I assume everything is about the same except for the controls and some of the graphics). To be concise, in this review, I will evaluate the pros and cons of buying this game, analyze different people's viewpoints and complaints about the game, and give an extensive conclusion over whether buying the game is worth it or not. Pros: Halo 2 has great graphics for its time (2007), and has better graphics than its predecessor, Halo: Combat Evolved. Its graphics are satisfying and make for a great environment in a first person shooter. Halo 2 also has a good choice of weapons, ranging from the UNSC Battle Rifle to the Covenant Particle Beam Rifle. The two sides, the UNSC and the Covenant, each have their own unique weapons, and those weapons have their perks. Choosing is completely your decision, but the selection is large, and there is something for everyone, whether you want to go in guns blazing or sit back at a vantage point picking off enemies. Halo 2 features some new vehicles. In Halo: Combat Evolved, Wraiths were not able to be driven, but in Halo 2, Wraiths can be driven by the player. Other new additions, like the Spectre, can be used for transport and offense, depending on which vehicle the player needs and what the vehicles will be used for. The Scorpion, Machine Gun Warthog, Ghost, and Banshee remain the same, while the Rocket Turret is modified with the introduction of a faster rocket with the Gauss Cannon (though there may be a tradeoff with speed and damage). Halo 2, with the introduction of dedicated servers, has many, many servers in the Halo multiplayer network. This extensive multiplayer network allows everyone to find the game he/she wants, regardless of whether he/she wants to host a network or not. Also, a wide variety of people play Halo 2, letting players make friends through playing together cooperatively or competitively. Halo 2 continues the plotline of the Halo series, continuing the plot from after the events of the book Halo: First Strike. The game continues a big cliffhanger from the end of Halo: Combat Evolved, and features a new, well-made story in the Halo world. Cons: Halo 2, though it has an extensive multiplayer network, has a limited number of people playing on its servers. At certain times of the day, it is relatively hard to find a game with the full set of 16 players playing on its servers. If you do manage to find a full set of people to play with, these all out clashes are competitive and very fun. Because of the limited number of people playing on Halo 2's servers, Microsoft once considered shutting down Halo 2's servers. Though Microsoft reconsidered and the servers are still up, this issue is a serious consideration into playing the game. If you enjoy the campaign as much as or more than multiplayer, then you should definitely buy this game. But if you only like the multiplayer in Halo 2, then you should seriously consider this issue. Halo 2 has unusually high requirements, which means that if your processor and graphics driver are not up to speed, then Halo 2 will definitely experience some lag on your computer. As personal experience, my computer tends to skip some of the frames while playing multiplayer, though this issue occasionally happened in campaign too. In the original Halo: Combat Evolved, moving your mouse across the length of a normal mousepad caused Master Chief to turn 180 degrees from left to right, and sensitivity wasn't a problem. I don't know if this problem will plague other players, but on my own computer, I had to move my mouse across the length of my mousepad approximately two times before my head turned 180 degrees, and the sensitivity is horrible, even up to the highest setting. If you have an Xbox Controller and an adapter to use it for Windows (or a Wired Xbox Controller), then I suggest you use that. Otherwise, the sensitivity may be a problem for you. Analysis: 1, People have claimed that their product keys are invalid, sometimes even after opening a completely new game. Though I do not know what causes this to happen, all I can say is that I bought a pre-owned game from desertcart, and the product key worked fine on my computer. Also, many people complain that Halo 2 doesn't work on their Windows 7 or 8 computers. Though I haven't tried installing Halo 2 on a Windows 7 computer, it worked fine on my Windows 8 computer, installing in less than 15 minutes. The only thing I had to install to make it work was the Windows - Games for Live Client, which also installed very quickly. Creating a Live account does not take a long time, as some seem to think. If you have a Microsoft account, you can easily create one, and if you have an Xbox Live account, that account can be used on the Windows Live client. For me, everything was a breeze, and I easily started playing the multiplayer after logging in to the Windows Live Client and creating a player. Conclusion: Though some people seem to have problems installing Halo 2 for PC on their computers such as invalid product keys and incompatible operating systems, I have not had any of these problems, even though I bought a used game, am on a Windows 8 computer. Though some of the cons can be serious at times, the pros far outweigh the cons in this game. My final words are, even though the price tag is a little hefty, Halo 2 is definitely a game worth buying. Fans of FPS games should definitely buy this game, even though the graphics may be a little old for the current generation. Again: Buy this game, and don't hesitate! Thanks a lot for taking the time to read this review! Review: Halo 2: Riding the coattails of Halo 1 - I just got Halo 2 working on my Windows 7 machine and am getting into the gameplay. The play is, frankly, a big step down from Halo 1 in several ways. Most irksome, the mouse sensitivity (I have it set at 10, what the game calls "insane") is excruciatingly slow, especially when driving the ghost, which seriously affects playability (you literally have to swipe the mouse across the pad three full times in order to turn 180 degrees). Beyond that, the movement is awkward and clumsy (you cannot crouch while running, you have to come to a full stop first), and it becomes clear from the first cutscene that the story line has taken a drastic turn for the campy. As disappointing as the gameplay is, it does still retain your interest, and does not itself warrant the worst possible rating, which I have given. So why did I give this one star? Because getting the game to run in the first place was like pulling teeth--an unacceptably difficult process. First, the game is simply not compatible with Windows XP, which a lot of people are still running. Some people will not encounter the problems that I encountered, but most--yes, most--do. The game does not run when installed out of the box. It continually gives you an error message saying that it could not connect to Windows LIVE (an awful system that is required to play the game, which also means that if you don't have an internet connection, Microsoft has decided not to allow you to play the game you just paid for), and suggests erroneous reasons. The reality is that you have to uninstall the Windows LIVE that came pre-installed on your computer and install the latest version. I found a Microsoft support page with instructions on how to do this, linking to a download page for the new version of LIVE. The link was wrong, and I had to go to lengths to find the correct download in Microsoft's labyrinthine "support" pages. All this just to get the game to run, which is a service that the developer (Microsoft) is, really, obligated to provide. Bitterly ironic, then, that the only game I have ever had trouble even getting to install and launch correctly on a Microsoft system is one made by Microsoft. It is painfully obvious that the game is a port from the XBox 360, and I found myself wondering if Microsoft even bothered to beta test it, or if they just copied and pasted the files onto CDs and sent them off to market hoping not for a good product but for good profits. They couldn't even be bothered to change the "Select" and "Back" icons on the menu pages from the XBox icons that don't make sense on a PC. The feeling that their attitude toward the PC release was "Hell with it, just get it to market and hope no one reads the reviews before they buy it. It's just the PC version, anyway" is inescapable. The ultimate test of a game sequel is the answer to this question: would it be a success if it was a brand new game without a successful name attached to it? Given the disappointments in gameplay as well as the arrogance of releasing a game that doesn't work once installed, the answer here is absolutely not. The only reason Halo 2 could make a splash on the PC platform was because of Halo 1. You're better off sticking to the original. ## Features - Microsoft telephone technical support ended in October 9, 2012 for this game. For technical issue, please contact Microsoft through their official website. - WINDOWS VISTA ONLY. - FOR SINGLE PLAYER ONLY. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | ASIN | B000NV8F58 | | Best Sellers Rank | #5,661 in Video Games ( See Top 100 in Video Games ) #2,124 in PC-compatible Games | | Computer Platform | PC | | Customer Reviews | 3.5 3.5 out of 5 stars (584) | | Date First Available | November 26, 2006 | | Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | Yes | | Item Weight | 6 ounces | | Item model number | U28-00002 | | Language | English | | Manufacturer | Microsoft | | Product Dimensions | 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.2 inches; 6 ounces | | Publication Date | May 31, 2007 | | Rated | Mature | | Release date | May 31, 2007 | | Type of item | Video Game | | UPC | 719546191089 804066523424 746345270714 882224444002 | ## Images ![Halo 2 - PC - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81R63uemq1L.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Platform For Display, Edition** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Halo franchise is great, and this game rocks! *by E***. on March 1, 2015* Halo 2 for the PC is an awesome game (though I haven't tried the Xbox version, I assume everything is about the same except for the controls and some of the graphics). To be concise, in this review, I will evaluate the pros and cons of buying this game, analyze different people's viewpoints and complaints about the game, and give an extensive conclusion over whether buying the game is worth it or not. Pros: Halo 2 has great graphics for its time (2007), and has better graphics than its predecessor, Halo: Combat Evolved. Its graphics are satisfying and make for a great environment in a first person shooter. Halo 2 also has a good choice of weapons, ranging from the UNSC Battle Rifle to the Covenant Particle Beam Rifle. The two sides, the UNSC and the Covenant, each have their own unique weapons, and those weapons have their perks. Choosing is completely your decision, but the selection is large, and there is something for everyone, whether you want to go in guns blazing or sit back at a vantage point picking off enemies. Halo 2 features some new vehicles. In Halo: Combat Evolved, Wraiths were not able to be driven, but in Halo 2, Wraiths can be driven by the player. Other new additions, like the Spectre, can be used for transport and offense, depending on which vehicle the player needs and what the vehicles will be used for. The Scorpion, Machine Gun Warthog, Ghost, and Banshee remain the same, while the Rocket Turret is modified with the introduction of a faster rocket with the Gauss Cannon (though there may be a tradeoff with speed and damage). Halo 2, with the introduction of dedicated servers, has many, many servers in the Halo multiplayer network. This extensive multiplayer network allows everyone to find the game he/she wants, regardless of whether he/she wants to host a network or not. Also, a wide variety of people play Halo 2, letting players make friends through playing together cooperatively or competitively. Halo 2 continues the plotline of the Halo series, continuing the plot from after the events of the book Halo: First Strike. The game continues a big cliffhanger from the end of Halo: Combat Evolved, and features a new, well-made story in the Halo world. Cons: Halo 2, though it has an extensive multiplayer network, has a limited number of people playing on its servers. At certain times of the day, it is relatively hard to find a game with the full set of 16 players playing on its servers. If you do manage to find a full set of people to play with, these all out clashes are competitive and very fun. Because of the limited number of people playing on Halo 2's servers, Microsoft once considered shutting down Halo 2's servers. Though Microsoft reconsidered and the servers are still up, this issue is a serious consideration into playing the game. If you enjoy the campaign as much as or more than multiplayer, then you should definitely buy this game. But if you only like the multiplayer in Halo 2, then you should seriously consider this issue. Halo 2 has unusually high requirements, which means that if your processor and graphics driver are not up to speed, then Halo 2 will definitely experience some lag on your computer. As personal experience, my computer tends to skip some of the frames while playing multiplayer, though this issue occasionally happened in campaign too. In the original Halo: Combat Evolved, moving your mouse across the length of a normal mousepad caused Master Chief to turn 180 degrees from left to right, and sensitivity wasn't a problem. I don't know if this problem will plague other players, but on my own computer, I had to move my mouse across the length of my mousepad approximately two times before my head turned 180 degrees, and the sensitivity is horrible, even up to the highest setting. If you have an Xbox Controller and an adapter to use it for Windows (or a Wired Xbox Controller), then I suggest you use that. Otherwise, the sensitivity may be a problem for you. Analysis: 1, People have claimed that their product keys are invalid, sometimes even after opening a completely new game. Though I do not know what causes this to happen, all I can say is that I bought a pre-owned game from Amazon, and the product key worked fine on my computer. Also, many people complain that Halo 2 doesn't work on their Windows 7 or 8 computers. Though I haven't tried installing Halo 2 on a Windows 7 computer, it worked fine on my Windows 8 computer, installing in less than 15 minutes. The only thing I had to install to make it work was the Windows - Games for Live Client, which also installed very quickly. Creating a Live account does not take a long time, as some seem to think. If you have a Microsoft account, you can easily create one, and if you have an Xbox Live account, that account can be used on the Windows Live client. For me, everything was a breeze, and I easily started playing the multiplayer after logging in to the Windows Live Client and creating a player. Conclusion: Though some people seem to have problems installing Halo 2 for PC on their computers such as invalid product keys and incompatible operating systems, I have not had any of these problems, even though I bought a used game, am on a Windows 8 computer. Though some of the cons can be serious at times, the pros far outweigh the cons in this game. My final words are, even though the price tag is a little hefty, Halo 2 is definitely a game worth buying. Fans of FPS games should definitely buy this game, even though the graphics may be a little old for the current generation. Again: Buy this game, and don't hesitate! Thanks a lot for taking the time to read this review! ### ⭐ Halo 2: Riding the coattails of Halo 1 *by M***Y on September 29, 2011* I just got Halo 2 working on my Windows 7 machine and am getting into the gameplay. The play is, frankly, a big step down from Halo 1 in several ways. Most irksome, the mouse sensitivity (I have it set at 10, what the game calls "insane") is excruciatingly slow, especially when driving the ghost, which seriously affects playability (you literally have to swipe the mouse across the pad three full times in order to turn 180 degrees). Beyond that, the movement is awkward and clumsy (you cannot crouch while running, you have to come to a full stop first), and it becomes clear from the first cutscene that the story line has taken a drastic turn for the campy. As disappointing as the gameplay is, it does still retain your interest, and does not itself warrant the worst possible rating, which I have given. So why did I give this one star? Because getting the game to run in the first place was like pulling teeth--an unacceptably difficult process. First, the game is simply not compatible with Windows XP, which a lot of people are still running. Some people will not encounter the problems that I encountered, but most--yes, most--do. The game does not run when installed out of the box. It continually gives you an error message saying that it could not connect to Windows LIVE (an awful system that is required to play the game, which also means that if you don't have an internet connection, Microsoft has decided not to allow you to play the game you just paid for), and suggests erroneous reasons. The reality is that you have to uninstall the Windows LIVE that came pre-installed on your computer and install the latest version. I found a Microsoft support page with instructions on how to do this, linking to a download page for the new version of LIVE. The link was wrong, and I had to go to lengths to find the correct download in Microsoft's labyrinthine "support" pages. All this just to get the game to run, which is a service that the developer (Microsoft) is, really, obligated to provide. Bitterly ironic, then, that the only game I have ever had trouble even getting to install and launch correctly on a Microsoft system is one made by Microsoft. It is painfully obvious that the game is a port from the XBox 360, and I found myself wondering if Microsoft even bothered to beta test it, or if they just copied and pasted the files onto CDs and sent them off to market hoping not for a good product but for good profits. They couldn't even be bothered to change the "Select" and "Back" icons on the menu pages from the XBox icons that don't make sense on a PC. The feeling that their attitude toward the PC release was "Hell with it, just get it to market and hope no one reads the reviews before they buy it. It's just the PC version, anyway" is inescapable. The ultimate test of a game sequel is the answer to this question: would it be a success if it was a brand new game without a successful name attached to it? Given the disappointments in gameplay as well as the arrogance of releasing a game that doesn't work once installed, the answer here is absolutely not. The only reason Halo 2 could make a splash on the PC platform was because of Halo 1. You're better off sticking to the original. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Killtacular *by A***N on December 3, 2014* 10/10 would buy, packaged in perfect condition and yes it can run on Windows 7 (not just for VISTA) which is a useless depleted broken operating system. Runs very smooth on a maxed out gaming system, brings back all the nostalgic feels playing the campaign. You'll def want to cry everytime, online servers are still up and theres a small community online that still plays all the time. I get 1v1'ed get people that are awesome to play on servers, worrying about campers or hackers will always be an issue. But theres nothing you can do about it the same happens in every single FPS game period. So if you don't like the gameplay because you're getting a bad kdr go cry to your mommy about it its just a game. Its capable to connect with a XBOX controller but i prefer WASD and mouse which is very difficult to get use to but its definetly worth it, you get very good hand eye coordination from doing it. After you customize your settings for your spartan or covenant class, its very smooth with character design and Games for windows Live is still running and the achievements and in game content linked to it are fantastic it feels like your playing xbox live for free with just exclusively pc gamers. So overall its a good game, i see nothing wrong with it at all I would highly recommend it to someone thats been wanting this game on their pc. Theres a few glitches here and there but overall quality the game is fantastic easy breazzy to go through, and enjoy yourself and have a good time. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - πŸ›’ **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** β€” Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** β€” Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - πŸ’° **No Hidden Fees** β€” All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - πŸ”„ **15-Day Free Returns** β€” Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - πŸ”’ **Secure Payments** β€” Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** β€” Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1242929-halo-2-pc](https://www.desertcart.tw/products/1242929-halo-2-pc) --- *Product available on Desertcart Taiwan* *Store origin: TW* *Last updated: 2026-05-07*